Remote SDE 1 Backend

Summary

The job is for a software engineer at Plivo, a cloud communications platform company. The role involves owning and implementing features for large clients, driving CI & CD, and developing scalable web apps with a focus on user experience. The company offers excellent healthcare coverage as part of its benefits.

Requirements

• 2 - 3 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems
• Proficient in Python/Golang/Java/ Node.js
• Understanding of Rest-based API Architecture
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code
• Excellent microservices pattern understanding
• Ability to define cross-core contracts and bring them to closure through collaboration
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda]
• Good aptitude in multi-threading and concurrency concepts
• Working knowledge of Git and proficiency with at least one build server: Jenkins/Travis/Bamboo

Responsibilities

• Own and implement features used by large customers like Truecaller, Mozilla, Zomato, Netflix, etc
• Performance, Security and Usability goals are in DNA
• Full ownership and accountability of Microservices which includes day-to-day operations and maintenance
• Business and technical Metric definitions and reviews
• Drive CI & CD Evaluate technologies and development stacks for API-based platform which scales to 100,000 transactions per second
• Perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment on demand
• Build web apps that are scalable and put user experience front and center
• Develop modular UI components for company-wide reuse
• Evolve a common design language for UI across apps
• Establish and advocate front-end coding guidelines
• Meld UX and great-looking UI while keeping excellent code quality
• Own end-to-end life cycle of the product from requirement analysis, design, development, test, release, and maintenance
• Develop reusable tools/libraries
• Identify opportunities for automation and collaboration points
• Continuously improve cycle time, throughput, and code quality
• Continuously improve value-adding-activities/non-value-adding activities ratio

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in UI development is an added advantage

Benefits

Excellent healthcare coverage